• smokeppb [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    It comes down to blood. Which side can bleed more. And the answer is Russia. Someone can correct me on this story, but it goes like this… A country goes to war agains China. Every day the Chinese lose one million fighters. After 100 days the enemy surrenders to China. Suffering and dying is part of the Russian psyche. They will bleed their own country dry and consider it a patriotic gesture.

    They actually still believe they are dying in droves, just naruto running into the bullets in human wave attacks.

      • invo_rt [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        I hear chuds parrot that line, inserting Russia instead of Slavic brainpan, and people including libs nod along because they saw Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates in the early oughts.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          9 months ago

          They used to say it about China during the Korean War. Boomers will swear up and down that the PLA sent waves of guys to die until the Americans ran out of bullets as a deliberate tactic.

          • VILenin [he/him]M
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            9 months ago

            It stems from the racism lobe of the crackkker brainpan

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              9 months ago

              Half that, half an inability to comprehend that the other side is trying, too.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                9 months ago

                Those [SLURS] didn't stop assaulting our position when they began taking losses! Why would anyone fight to the death for a cause?!?!?!!

                That said, I've heard that one of the real reasons for the brutal assault waves was bad field communications - The PLA sends 100 guys forward. There aren't enough radios to go around, so the officer has orders to retreat if they can't advance, and if they don't hear from him they'll send another assault wave to back him up and push the assault in 10 minutes.

                Well, the officer and his company get wrecked by American defenses, everyone's either dead or fighting, no one goes back to say "it's no good here, we can't advance", so the next wave gets to go ahead ten minutes later to advance. And all these PLA troops get stuck in and aren't able to convey information back to their assembly area to stop the assault bc of all the chaos. Doubly so for night assaults or in shitty weather or shitty terrain.

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            9 months ago

            "We got owned because the enemy used the oldest and shittiest military tactic in human history. Here's how that's unfair to us..."

      • smokeppb [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        This dude's definition of Slavic is anywhere east of Prague. Chinese Slavs, amazing.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          geordi-no dividing up Europe and Asia based on use of human wave tactics

          geordi-yes dividing up Europe and Asia based on whether shoes are allowed in the house

      • pixelghost [any]
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        9 months ago

        Just waiting for them to call us candle-eaters at this point.

    • frogloom [they/them]
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      9 months ago

      what story goes like that? what the fuck are they talking about?

      • edge [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        The racist story of "those hoards in the east don't value human lives as much as we do".

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          "those hoards in the east don't value human lives as much as we do"

          Coming from the part of the world that brought us:

          CW: Genocide
          • The Holocaust
          • The Congo Free State
          • The Bengal Famine
          • The Korean Genocide
          • The Native American genocides
          • I could keep going but I think I would actually exceed the character limit
        • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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          9 months ago

          There was a line in a German newspaper recently that said "Israel is a democracy, where every life matters" agony-shivering

        • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          america sacrificed at least a million lives to the plague so that line would temporarily go up

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      9 months ago

      But that's how the Russians fight according to the nazis the Russians beat!! Nazis wouldn't LIEEEEE?!?!

    • pixelghost [any]
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      9 months ago

      You mean that's not how it works? Why would Nazis lie... deeper-sadness

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      Every war is literally a sacrifice lol. Whether the war is cynical or for defense or for revolution, your purpose as a soldier is to sacrifice yourself if necessary, and your purpose as a commander is to efficiently sacrifice your soldiers.